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Intelligent Highway Solutions is a technology-based electrical contracting company pursuing opportunities to apply its diversified line of high and low voltage solutions in multiple areas: cannabis applications, intelligent traffic solutions, lighting systems, and smart parking technology. The company’s leadership team applies an extensive blend of business, financing and electrical backgrounds to execute its vision of a solid and profitable foothold in each of these areas.

IHSI’s primary focus is on intelligent traffic solutions that collect and correlate real-time data at traffic signals to improve traffic flow, reduce emissions and synchronize traffic signals for public safety and public transportation vehicle priority. Through the development of these proprietary wireless vehicle detection systems, IHSI established relationships with the transportation markets of local and state governments, which ultimately led to the company’s business opportunity in the lighting industry.

The initial design of these business relationships called for IHSI to provide highly efficient and long-lasting lighting solutions, via exclusive distribution rights from SCS Lighting Solutions, to municipalities as a way to significantly reduce energy and maintenance costs. These relationships, as well as the diversity of IHSI’s management team, primed the company to take advantage of another business venture. With the right products and the right networking, IHSI was provided the opportunity to offer low-cost, energy-efficient lighting technology designed to aid and accelerate the growth of cannabis plants.

IHSI plans to capture its share of the billowing medical marijuana industry through a 300-watt lighting solution that is expected to contribute to the creation of large, healthy yields of cannabis. The proprietary lighting system uses increased lumens and photon density to provide cannabis plant nurseries with the necessary color spectrum and light needed to create an optimal growing environment, while at the same time reducing energy consumption and cost.

In conjunction with Case Parking, IHSI also offers a smart, wireless parking solution that has applications in municipal parking, commercial lots, college parking and healthcare facilities. The system minimizes operational costs while providing owners and managers with consistent, real-time data regarding the parking activities in their lots and garages.

Leveraging a management team comprised of electrical contractors with years of business management expertise, IHSI aims to cultivate sustainable growth to advance its position in each of these key industries.

Intelligent Highway Solutions, an established provider of robust electrical contracting solutions across the spectrum of high and low voltage applications, has evolved considerably from their bedrock in proprietary wireless vehicle detection and lighting technologies designed to improve safety on America’s roads. Today the company continues to broaden its reach in parallel markets like energy-efficient building solutions for advanced lighting, as well as wireless communications and temperature control systems, and has even begun applying their technological prowess to cracking the white-hot North American cannabis sector.

The company’s 100-watt lighting system shows incredible energy savings of up to 80% when running at low temperatures around 80 degrees and their intelligent, networked traffic signal solutions not only improve roadway throughput and safety, they offer city officials a ready means of gathering potent big data vectors to help better understand the flow of traffic and thus plan infrastructure/spending accordingly. Similarly, the company’s smart-parking solutions executed alongside partner Case Parking help create a self-aware wireless parking grid, improving the efficiency of high volume entities like municipal, healthcare, university, and commercial lots. Real-time data aggregation of parking activity, including an alert system to more efficiently deploy assistance, greatly reduces overall outlays while offering proprietors and managers a form of high-value, persistent situational awareness about their infrastructure and clientele.

The still nascent medical marijuana (MMJ) market in the U.S. alone is on track to produce around $2B in revenue this year according to the May analytics out of IBISWorld. With a projected growth rate of around 19.1% through 2019 and even larger figures for the broader space, like the retail store end-market (around $3B with a trailing CAGR 20.5% over the last half-decade), there is nevertheless still tremendous room for growth. An increasing number of Americans have moved towards treating pain and other conditions with medical marijuana in recent years and legislative reform is pointing in the direction of sustained sector growth. A sizeable proportion of the overall U.S. market still does not use medical marijuana, despite the increasing perception that components like cannabidiol (CBD) oil possesses tremendous potential health benefits with little to no associated risks and so there is plenty of upside in the sector yet to be realized.

IHSI is in a superb position to leverage the same kind of advanced Solid State Diode (SSD)
lighting technology used to help heavy-hitters like Honeywell International, Inc. (NYSE:HON) achieve California Title 24 energy efficiency building code standards to assist growers in the MMJ sector when it comes to improving their cultivation output, as well as operating efficiency. Intelligent Highway Solutions has access to the gamut of both off-the-shelf and custom-built SSD hardware via their master distribution agreement with SCS Lighting, whose products routinely exceed 100k-hour lifespans, making them perfect for a variety of uses ranging from safe food quality and explosion-proof applications, to more mundane “rough service” usages.

IHSI’s proprietary 300-watt lighting solution for improving healthy cannabis yields benefits from increased photonic density and greater lumen output (a whopping 10.5k lumens per 100W fixture), offering cultivators a superior color spectrum solution that not only enhances growth rates and chemical potency, but also offers the chance to save on the primary cost factor associated with such cultivation, energy consumption. The company’s proprietary hydroponic lighting fixtures using high-efficiency LEDs are wavelength tunable for specific applications, harnessing the established science behind the ability of precise wavelengths to maximize photosynthesis. A combination of up to 400% more usable light than traditional competing offerings, as well as seasonal output replication via wavelength-tunability, is a powerful tech mix that makes these extremely energy efficient fixtures a God send for hydroponic cultivators, even if we are just talking about increasingly lucrative organic produce. High-yields, accelerated growth and vastly improved energy efficiency over traditional HID metal halide or sodium lamps in wide use today, puts the company at the forefront of the rapidly emerging MMJ sector alongside players like controlled agricultural technology developer Terra Tech Corp. (OTCQB:TRTC), or GreenGro Technologies (OTCPK:GRNH).

The company is even working on a replacement technology for standard inductive loop systems that not only will gather and transmits traffic flow data, it will reduce power required to run the wireless transmitter and achieve zero idle power loss, only using power to actually transmit data. While this project focuses heavily on developing sophisticated low-power control algorithms that can harvest piezoelectric energy from the short-duration vibrations created by vehicles going over the sensor, it also offers a clear alternative to inductive loop detectors that require continuous power consumption, even at night when traffic is low, presenting obvious benefits to cities and municipalities.

Intelligent Highway Solutions announced it has an agreement with Smith, Dawson & Andrews, a government relations firm based in Washington D.C., to receive additional support in exploring and executing industry contracts.

Underscoring its business ties with Honeywell International to bring its California buildings to code with Title 24 regulations, the company plans to use its new partnership to gain market share within other municipal, state and federal buildings with similar needs. Through its master distribution agreement with SCS Lighting Systems, the company will offer its lighting solution technology to help businesses integrate energy-efficient lighting fixtures and bulbs in Federal buildings.

Devon Jones, Chief Executive Officer, stated, “We have the tools necessary to provide the solutions, and our relationship with Smith, Dawson and Andrews gives us the conduit to make the necessary connections at the Federal level to introduce our company to the right decision makers in D.C. and other municipal and state agencies. This type of retrofit is the same as IHSI has undertaken with Honeywell in California.”

Industry insiders note the SCS lighting fixtures and lamp replacements have documented track records of success in reducing energy consumption up to 80% in buildings. When energy savings are added, installation of these lighting systems are said to increase the appraised value of the building and offer a healthier environment to work in.

Robert Gaines of Smith, Dawson & Andrews said, “I am enthusiastic about this new relationship with IHSI. My background in representing cities, counties and public agencies has led to my understanding of what makes a successful public-private partnership. The services offered by IHSI provide a one-stop solution for public agencies. IHSI provides a full turnkey solution from the initial energy audit to a completed installation and on-going service and maintenance.”

Intelligent Highway Solutions announced it has confirmed an agreement with Smith, Dawson & Andrews, a Washington D.C.-based government relations firm, to receive added support in exploring and executing additional industry contracts.

Adding to the success of its relationship with Honeywell International, Inc. to bring its California buildings to code with Title 24 regulations, IHSI intends to use its new partnership to capture additional opportunity within other municipal, state and federal sector buildings with related needs.

By way of its master distribution agreement with SCS Lighting Systems, the company will offer its lighting solution technology to help businesses integrate energy-efficient lighting fixtures and bulbs in Federal buildings.

Chief Executive Officer, Devon Jones, said, “We have the tools necessary to provide the solutions, and our relationship with Smith, Dawson and Andrews gives us the conduit to make the necessary connections at the Federal level to introduce our company to the right decision makers in D.C. and other municipal and state agencies. This type of retrofit is the same as IHSI has undertaken with Honeywell in California.”

The industry cites the SCS lighting fixtures and lamp replacement to possess a proven track record of success in reducing energy consumption by up to 80% in a variety of buildings. With the addition of energy savings, implementation of these lighting systems is said to increase the value of the building and offer a healthier working environment.

Robert Gaines of Smith, Dawson & Andrews noted, “I am enthusiastic about this new relationship with IHSI. My background in representing cities, counties and public agencies has led to my understanding of what makes a successful public-private partnership. The services offered by IHSI provide a one-stop solution for public agencies. IHSI provides a full turnkey solution from the initial energy audit to a completed installation and on-going service and maintenance.”

Since 1981, Smith Dawson & Andrews (SDA) has been providing strategic planning, government relations and communications services to a variety of businesses, state and local governments, nonprofits and associations. For decades, customers have relied on SDA’s solution-oriented professionals to deliver solutions Washington and across the nation.

Intelligent Highway Solutions is an interesting story of business evolution, innovation and expansion. Led by a management team of electrical contractors, whose resumes also boast years of experience in the business world, the company has demonstrated unique flexibility in the application of its expertise.

IHSI was initially launched to develop and implement proprietary wireless vehicle detection systems designed to boost efficiency in the nation’s roadways. The intelligent transportations (ITS) industry offers incredible potential, valued at approximately $48 billion as cities and states feeling the strain of tightening budgets seek new technologies to maximize existing highway capacity.

For IHSI, deployment of its ITS initiative cultivated strong company relationships with the transportation markets of local and state governments, enabled a distribution agreement with SCS Lighting Solutions, and ultimately became a gateway for the company’s new business venture: lighting for the booming medical marijuana industry.

Through the SCS Lighting Solutions partnership, IHSI aimed to offer municipalities highly efficient, customized, long-lasting lighting solutions with the potential to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in energy and maintenance costs. Through this application, however, IHSI was presented with a unique business opportunity to implement cutting-edge lighting technology to accelerate the growth of cannabis plants. As it turns out, IHSI was already armed with the necessary expertise and infrastructure to provide superior lighting capabilities for this specific purpose.

Generating annual sales of approximately $1.5 billion in the U.S. alone, the medical marijuana industry is currently one of the world’s fastest growing markets. With demand for quality marijuana on the rise, cannabis nurseries are seeking out efficient cultivation methods and technologies, which are vital to the growth and quality of the plants as well as to the success of the grower.

Metal halide and sodium HID lamps lighting fixtures are widely used in the medical marijuana industry, though these solutions require significant energy consumption. IHSI’s custom lighting solution, on the other hand, uses approximately 85% less power and provides more than 400% of the required energy in the proper wavelengths for photosynthesis versus HID lamps.

Energy efficiency also equates to far less energy dispelled as heat, which cuts cooling costs. When you consider the fact that many plant nurseries have more than 1,000 lights for grow purposes, the savings in cooling costs paired with savings gained from using lighting fixtures with minimal energy consumption creates incredible cost savings opportunity.

IHSI recently shipped its 300-watt grow light prototype to an industry-leading medical cannabis facility licensed by the city of Oakland, California. With three times the power of its previously tested 100-watt lighting system, IHSI’s 300-watt solution is expected to contribute to large, healthy yields of cannabis.

The new lighting system is enhanced with increased lumens and photon density to achieve energy savings and provide the plant nursery with the necessary color spectrum and light to create an optimal growing environment and is expected to result in significant energy savings as compared to the existing lighting solutions on the market.

Backed by a management team of electrical contractor/businessmen with an eye for opportunity, IHSI is well-positioned to cultivate sustainable growth in a critical segment of the medical marijuana industry

Intelligent Highway Solutions announced it has shipped its 300-watt grow light prototype to a reputable medical cannabis facility licensed by the city of Oakland, California. The shipment has been executed in full compliance with state regulations.

Necessary color spectrum and quantity of light at nurseries growing cannabis are needed for the growth and quality of the plants. Having three times the power of the Company’s 100-watt lighting system, IHSI’s 300-watt solution is expected to aid in yielding large, healthy crops of cannabis. The 100-watt system has resulted in a reduction of energy of 80% while maintaining a temperature of approximately 80 degrees.

Devon Jones, chief executive officer of Intelligent Highway Solutions, says, “Our new 300-watt lighting system, which was installed at the California grow facility on August 28, is enhanced with increased lumens and photon density to achieve energy savings and provide the plant nursery with the necessary color spectrum and light to create an optimal growing environment. Based on the performance of our 100-watt system, we anticipate that the more powerful prototype will result in significant energy savings as compared to the existing lighting solutions on the market and perform as a powerful solution for growing healthy plants.”

Robust, cost-effecting lighting systems are vital to the cannabis growing process and IHSI intends to provide its technologies as the lighting solution to the legal cannabis sector. With the lighting system installed and operable, the cannabis facility will observe how cannabis reacts to various custom spectrum programs and relay the data to IHSI.

Intelligent Highway Solutions is a technology-based electrical contracting company that develops and implements high and low voltage solutions across a variety of platforms. Through the development of proprietary wireless vehicle detection systems the company words to make the nation’s roadways more efficient. The company also performs electrical installations, provides temperature control systems, communication/wireless integration, and advanced lighting systems for commercial use. In 2014, IHSI received exclusive distribution rights to proprietary lighting solutions directed towards the legal cannabis industry which aids growers reduce costs and efficiencies leading to improved yields.